Computer : a history of the information machine / Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, Jeffrey R. Yost.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: The Sloan technology seriesPublisher: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Edition: Third editionDescription: xv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813345901 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  • 0813345901 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA 76.17 .C36 2014
Contents:
Preface to the Third Edition -- Part One. BEFORE THE COMPUTER -- When Computers Were People -- The Mechanical Office -- Babbage's Dream Comes True -- Part Two. CREATING THE COMPUTER -- Inventing the Computer -- The Computer Becomes a Business Machine -- The Maturing of the Mainframe : The Rise of IBM -- Part Three. INNOVATION AND EXPANSION -- Real Time : Reaping the Whirlwind -- Software -- New Modes of Computing -- Part Four. GETTING PERSONAL -- The Shaping of the Personal Computer -- Broadening the Appeal -- The Internet.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and index.

Preface to the Third Edition -- Part One. BEFORE THE COMPUTER -- When Computers Were People -- The Mechanical Office -- Babbage's Dream Comes True -- Part Two. CREATING THE COMPUTER -- Inventing the Computer -- The Computer Becomes a Business Machine -- The Maturing of the Mainframe : The Rise of IBM -- Part Three. INNOVATION AND EXPANSION -- Real Time : Reaping the Whirlwind -- Software -- New Modes of Computing -- Part Four. GETTING PERSONAL -- The Shaping of the Personal Computer -- Broadening the Appeal -- The Internet.

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